Interprocess communication

• Lightweight Remote Procedure Call, B.N. Bershad, T.E. Anderson, E.D. Lazowska, and H.M. Levy, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 35-55, Feb 1990
• Lazy Receiver Processing (LRP): A New Architecture for Server Systems, P. Druschel and G. Banga. In the Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'96), October 1996.
• Understanding the Limitations of Causal and Totally Ordered Multicast, D.R. Cheriton and D. Skeen. In the Proceedings of the 14th Symposium on Operating System Principles (SOSP '93), Dec 1993.
• Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System, L. Lamport. In Communications of the ACM, Vol 21, No. 7, July 1978.

Replication, Caching, and Consistency

• Shared Memory Consistency Models: A Tutorial, S.V. Adve and K. Gharachorloo, Rice University ECE Technical Report 9512 and Compaq Western Research Laboratory Research Report 95/7, Sep 1995.
• Epidemic Algorithms in Replicated Databases, D. Agarwal, A. El Abbadi, and R.C. Steinke. In the Proceedings of PODS '97, pp. 161-172.
• Summary Cache: A Scalable Wide-Area Web Cache Sharing Protocol, L. Fan, P. Cao, J. Almeida and A. Broder. In the Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM'98, pp. 254-265, Feb 1998
• Web Prefetching Between Low-Bandwidth Clients and Proxies: Potential and Performance, L. Fan, Q. Jacobson, P. Cao and W. Lin. In the Proceedings of International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS '99), pp. 178-187, May 1999.
• The Dangers of Replication and a Solution, J. Gray, P. Helland, P. O'Neil, and D. Shasha. In the Proceedings of the 1996 Symposium on the Management of Data (SIGMOD '96).
• Lazy Consistency Using Loosely Synchronized Clocks, A. Adya and B. Liskov. In the Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC '97), Aug 1997.
• Maintaining Strong Cache Consistency in the World-Wide Web, C. Liu and P. Cao, In the Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computer Systems, 1997.
• The Information Bus - An Architecture for Extensible Distributed Systems, B.M. Oki, M. Pflug, A. Siegel, and D. Skeen. In the Proceedings of the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '93), pp. 58-68, Nov 1993.
• Flexible Update Propagation for Weakly Consistent Replication, K. Peterson, M. Spreitzer, D.B. Terry, M.M. Theimer, A.J. Demers. In the Proceedings of 16th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-16), Oct 5-8, 1997, pp. 288-301.

Clusters and Clustered Applications

• Serverless Network File Systems, T.E. Anderson, M.D. Dahlin, J.M. Neefe, D.A. Patterson, D.S. Roselli, and R.Y. Wang. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol 14, No 1, Feb 1996.
• Cluster-Based Scalable Network Services, A. Fox, S.D. Gribble, T. Chawathe, E.A. Brewer, and P. Gauthier. In the Proceedings of 16th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '97), Oct 1997.
• GLUnix: A Global Layer Unix for a Network of Workstations, D.P. Ghormley, D. Petrou, S.H. Rodrigues, A.M. Vahdat, and T.E. Anderson. To appear in Software: Practice and Experience. (Read especially the sections that talk about difficulties and lessons learned).
• Petal: distributed virtual disks, E.K. Lee and C.A. Thekkath. In the Proceedings of Seventh International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating System (ASPLOS-VII), Oct 1-4, 1996, pages 84-92.
• A Proxy Architecture for Reliable Multicast in Heterogeneous Environments, Y. Chawathe, S. Fink, S. McCanne, and E. Brewer. In the Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 98, Sep 1998.
• Manageability, Availability and Performance in Porcupine: A Highly Scalable, Cluster-Based Mail Service, Y. Saito, B.N. Bershad and H.M. Levy. In the Proceedings of the 17th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '99), pp. 1-15, Dec 1999.
• Frangipani: A Scalable Distributed File System, C. Thekkath, T. Mann, and E.K. Lee. In the Proceedings of 16th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-16), Oct 5-8, 1997, pages 224-2371.
• The Design and Architecture of the Microsoft Cluster Service, W. Vogels, D. Dumitriu, K. Birman, et al. In the Proceedings of FTCS 98, June 1998.

Fault tolerance

• A Highly Available Network File Server, A.K. Bhide, E.N. Elnozahy, S.P. Morgan. In the Proceedings of the 1991 USENIX Winter Conference, pp 199-205, Jan 1991.
• Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance, M. Castro and B. Liskov. In the Proceedings of the 1999 Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '99).
• A Survey of Rollback-Recovery Protocols in Message-Passing Systems, E.N. Elnozahy, D.B. Johnson, and Y.M. Wang. Tech Report No. CMU-CS-96-181, Carnegie Mellon University, Oct 1996.
• The Performance of Consistent Checkpointing, E.N. Elnozahy, D.B. Johnson, and W. Zwaenepoel. In the Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, pp. 86-95, Oct 1993.
• Detecting and Understanding Performance Failure With Coarse-Grained Monitoring, K. Richardson. In the Proceedings of the 2nd Grace Murray Hopper Celebration of Women In Computing.
• Internet Service Performance Failure Detection, A. Ward, P. Glynn, and K. Richardson. In the Proceedings of the 1998 Web Server Performance Workshop
• Availability in the Echo File System, G. Swart, A. Birrell, A. Hisgen, and T. Mann. Digital SRC Research Report 112, Sept 1993.

Network Appliances

• Cost-effective high-bandwidth storage architecture, G.A. Gibson, D.F. Nagle, K. Amiri, J. Butler, F.W. Chang, H. Gobioff, E. Riedel, D. Rochberg and J. Zelenka. In the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Architectural support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '98), October 1998.
• Highly concurrent shared storage, K. Amiri, G. Gibson and R. Golding. In the Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, April 2000.
• NASD Scalable Storage Systems, G.A. Gibson, D.F. Nagle, W. Courtright II, N. Lanza, P. Mazaitis, M. Unangst, and J. Zelenka.. In the Proceedings of USENIX 1999, June 1999.
• Locality-Aware Request Distribution in Cluster-based Network Servers, V. Pai, M. Aron, G. Banga, M. Svendsen, P. Druschel, W. Zwaenepoel, and E. Nahum. In the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-VIII), Oct 1998.

Wireless/mobile systems support

• Disconnected Operation in the Coda File System, J.J. Kistler and M. Satyanarayanan. In the ACM Transactions on Computers, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 3-25, Feb 1992. -- More Coda papers can be found here
• Adapting to Network and Client Variation Using Active Proxies: Lessons and Perspectives, A. Fox, S.D. Gribble, Y. Chawathe, and E.A. Brewer. In IEEE Personal Communications, August 1998.
• Experience with Top Gun Wingman, A Proxy-Based Graphical Web Browser for the Palm Pilot, A. Fox, I. Goldberg, S.D. Gribble, D.C. Lee, A. Polito, and E. A. Brewer. In Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms and Open Distributed Processing (Middleware '98), Sep 1998.
• Agile Application-aware Adaptation for Mobility, B.D. Noble, M. Satyanarayanan, D. Narayanan, J.E. Tilton, J. Flinn and K.R. Walker. In the Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. 276-287, Oct 1997.
• The Thinnest of Clients: Controlling It All Via Cellphone, F. Stajano and A. Jones. Mobile Computing and Communications Review 2(4), Mar 1998.

Wide area applications and the Web

• Khazana: An Infrastructure for Building Distributed Services, J. Carter, A. Ranganathan, and S. Susarla. In the Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 562--571, May 1998.
• Globus: A Metacomputing Infrastructure Toolkit, I. Foster and C. Kesselman. In the International Journal of Supercomputer Applications, 11(2):115-128, 1997.
• System Design Issues for Internet Middleware Services: Deductions from a Large Client Trace. S.D. Gribble and E.A. Brewer. In Proceedings of the 1997 Usenix Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS 97), Dec 1997.
• The MultiSpace: an Evolutionary Platform for Infrastructural Services, S.D. Gribble, M. Welsh, E.A. Brewer, and D. Culler. In the Proceedings of the 1999 Usenix Annual Technical Conference, June 1999.
• Legion: An Operating System for Wide-Area Computing, A. Grimshaw, A. Ferrari, F. Knabe, and M. Humphrey. University of Virginia Technical Report No. CS-99-12.
• The Role of Distributed State, J Ousterhout.
• Java Spaces, SUN Microsystems.
• WebOS: Operating System Services For Wide Area Applications, A. Vahdat, T. Anderson, M. Dahlin, D. Culler, E. Belani, P. Eastham, and C. Yoshikawa. In the Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, July 1998.
• Active Network Vision and Reality: Lessions Form a Capsule-Based System, D. Wetherall, In the Proceedings of the 17th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '99), pp. 64-79, Dec 1999.

Operating System Design Issues

• Extensibility, Safety, and Performance in the SPIN Operating System, B.N. Bershad, S. Savage, P. Pardyak, E.G. Sirer, M.E. Fiuczynski, D. Becker, C. Chambers, and S. Eggers. In the Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '95), Dec 1995.
• Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors, E. Bugnion, S. Devine, and M. Rosenblum. In the Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. 143-156, Oct 1997.
• The Flux OSKit: A Substrate For Kernel and Language Research, B. Ford, G. Back, G. Benson, J. Lepreau, A. Lin and O. Shivers. In the Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. 38-51, Oct 1997.
• Cellular Disco: Resource Management Using Virtual Clusters on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors, K. Govil, D. Teodosiu, Y. Huang and M. Rosenblum. In the Proceedings of the 17th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '99), pp. 154-169, Dec 1999.
• The Performance of Microkernel-based Systems, H. Hašrtig, M. Hohmuth, J. Liedtke and S. Schošnberg. In the Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. 66-77, Oct 1997.
• Application Performance and Flexibility on Exokernel Systems, M.F. Kaashoek, D.R. Engler, G.R. Ganger, H.M. Briceno, R. Hunt, D. Mazieres, T. Pinckney, R. Grimm, J. Jannotti and K. Mackenzie. In the Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. 52-65, Oct 1997.
• Design and Implementation of a Distributed Virtual Machine for Networked Computers, E.G. Sirer, R. Grimm, A.J. Gregory and B.N. Bershad. In the Proceedings of the 17th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '99), pp. 202-216, Dec 1999.
• Soft Timers: Efficient Microsecond Software Timer Support for Network Processing, M. Aron and P. Druschel. In the Proceedings of the 17th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '99), pp. 202-216, Dec 1999.